The Representation of Trauma in Ayn Rand's Novel Atlas Shrugged Available to Purchase

ANASTASIYA VASILIEVNA GRIGOROVSKAYA, candidate degree in philology, is an associate professor in the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature at Tyumen State University. She is a member of the Russian Society of American Culture Studies (Moscow) and European Association of American Studies (UK). Her candidate thesis is devoted to modern Russian anti-utopias. She is a coauthor of the monograph The Russian Project of World Correction and Art Creativity of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Moscow, 2014). She is working on the first doctoral thesis about Ayn Rand in Russia. She was a participant of the Third Memorial Conference on Ayn Rand (Adam Smith Center, Saint Petersburg, 2017). Among her nine publications on Rand, in Russian, are “Masonic Code in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead” (Culture and Civilization, no. 1A [2017]: 195–20) and “The First American Novel about Soviet Russia: ‘The Living’ and ‘The Dead’ in Ayn Rand's novel We the Living” (Political Linguistics, no. 1 [2016]: 134–40). Her aim is to revive Ayn Rand's reputation under today's conditions of globalization and to promote future investigations of Rand's Russian origins.